Help your child set goals for yourself. His big goal may be starting preschool, so help you break it down into smaller goals and targets. For example, you can start by challenging him to stay dry between visits to the potty. Take it to the potty, then set a timer for 45 minutes or an hour. When the timer goes off, tell the child that it is time potty. If it is dry when it comes to the bathroom, celebrate. Reward you with a sticker on the calendar or a silly song and dance and point quickly he can return to play.
When he has mastered this goal, challenge you to stay dry for a day. When he was dry for several days, celebrate taking a trip to the store to choose their own underwear big boy. Continue to praise and celebrate each successful trip to the potty.
Be prepared for accidents and regressions. Many children who are excited to Potty Train and seem to get very quickly regress after the novelty wears off. In this case, simply clean up the mess (or better yet, have the child help you clean it) and change.During this process, point out how much faster it could have been back playing he had chosen to listen to your body and gone to the potty instead. Do not punish, just to point out the logical consequences of their choices. At 3 1/2, most children are very interested in exercising control so often simply recognize that they are in control of their bodies is sufficient to cut a short regression.
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